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way ahead of the economy. the economy is not doing badly. >> neil: what is behind the companies spending all this cash in apple's case, hiking its dividend, and everything else? they're doing something didn't used to do. are you encouraged by that? look can how they're spending that? >> well, hiking the dividends, increasing the buybacks don't increase competitiveness. so if you don't get demand in this economy, don't get growth this, whole idea about jobs -- we have this conversation all the time. people talking about, let's have more job. why aren't people hiring? because we don't have the demand, and we've got to create a society that looks at growing the pie, making the pie bigger, getting gdp up to 3-1/2 to 4%, and letting everybody benefit from the growth. that what we're after. >> neil: you were back running ge and you vastly expanded that empire -- you would not be inclined to expand plant equipment, maybe if you had a cash to work with you would you do the stuff apple is doing, the kind of stuff comca
way ahead of the economy. the economy is not doing badly. >> neil: what is behind the companies spending all this cash in apple's case, hiking its dividend, and everything else? they're doing something didn't used to do. are you encouraged by that? look can how they're spending that? >> well, hiking the dividends, increasing the buybacks don't increase competitiveness. so if you don't get demand in this economy, don't get growth this, whole idea about jobs -- we have this...
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economy, like it or not. but also a loss of productivity for businesses. when schools are closed, parents can't go to work, and it may be a day off but it's no vacation for the parents, and that's a lot of productivity in the work place. this most recent storm happens at quarter end. and some of those days are lost. >> also, municipalities are going to be affected. we know that state and local government have absolutely been desmated by rising healthcare costs, rising pension benefits they're paying out to retirees. this is the last strom they're paying what is left for snow removal, and they may have to ask for more money. the only silver lininges it forces families to stay home. have that dinner table conversation they might rather not have. they're all stuck in a dark room and can't use electronics. so there's so positives. >> neil: there is that. i'm wondering, this whole first quarter of the year has been buffetted by one storm after another and i'm wondering how it's going to affect the overall economy in terms of gdp and big data we get. will it be
economy, like it or not. but also a loss of productivity for businesses. when schools are closed, parents can't go to work, and it may be a day off but it's no vacation for the parents, and that's a lot of productivity in the work place. this most recent storm happens at quarter end. and some of those days are lost. >> also, municipalities are going to be affected. we know that state and local government have absolutely been desmated by rising healthcare costs, rising pension benefits...
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more uncertainty in this global economy. >> neil: thank you, greg. you know something is going on in sign press just changed over the last 24 hours, new villain in town and it's the banks. so the government has successfully managed to keep the focus on the evil banks, even when you consider the fact that the banks are really doing things the government -- at the government's behest but might find a little odd that the head of cyprus bank had to resign, and the president of the country is looking at a formal criminal probe into bank activity ahead of this. how familiar and similar does that sound to what happened here? i don't know, right after the big meltdown. i'm not the only one having a case of deja vu. so is my friend jerry willis from the fox business network. jerry, i don't think banks are saying this but there are american few sinners here. >> the government bureaucrats have failed on every count. the blew the negotiations with the iu, thought they would get money out of russia, didn't work, and now they're micromanaging the banks. the money
more uncertainty in this global economy. >> neil: thank you, greg. you know something is going on in sign press just changed over the last 24 hours, new villain in town and it's the banks. so the government has successfully managed to keep the focus on the evil banks, even when you consider the fact that the banks are really doing things the government -- at the government's behest but might find a little odd that the head of cyprus bank had to resign, and the president of the country is...
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we all know the bad numbers out of the economy in the last couple quarters, being run over by some of these media folks -- look no further than the unemployment rate which is a fancy way of saying all the people that are either parttimers that want fulltime, or all the people that have just been so discouraged, they have given up looking for work. the number is over 14%. so while the unmomentum rate is celebrated at a post recession low, we're still about mid-teens for unemployment as a real term. >> neil: let me ask you this. when so many states are seeing for some a sudden uptick in the up employment rate,ings to that trigger or pop up in the national numbers or is there a lag effect? what do you see? >> well, there's certainly a lag effect to some degree because there are different economic factors going on in different states. we talk about this before. all the fracking has poshed then unemployment rates in dakotas, but at it gone up, especially in states next door. but for anybody to sit here and tell you that fundamentals are changing as a whole across the nation are as misdenge
we all know the bad numbers out of the economy in the last couple quarters, being run over by some of these media folks -- look no further than the unemployment rate which is a fancy way of saying all the people that are either parttimers that want fulltime, or all the people that have just been so discouraged, they have given up looking for work. the number is over 14%. so while the unmomentum rate is celebrated at a post recession low, we're still about mid-teens for unemployment as a real...